Essential Reads for Life Skills as You Transition to Adulthood
Dive into these must-read books that equip you with the essential life skills needed for adulthood. From managing finances to building relationships, these titles will guide you through this exciting yet challenging phase. Embrace your journey with confidence and knowledge!
Adulting
391 pages
From breaking up with frenemies to fixing your toilet, this way fun comprehensive handbook is the answer for aspiring grown-ups of all ages. If you graduated from college but still feel like a student . . . if you wear a business suit to job interviews but pajamas to the grocery store . . . if you have your own apartment but no idea how to cook or clean . . . it's OK. But it doesn't have to be this way. Just because you don't feel like an adult doesn't mean you can't act like one. And it all begins with this funny, wise, and useful book. Based on Kelly Williams Brown's popular blog, Adulting makes the scary, confusing "real world" approachable, manageable—and even conquerable. This guide will help you to navigate the stormy Sea of Adulthood so that you may find safe harbor in Not Running Out of Toilet Paper Bay, and along the way you will learn: What to check for when renting a new apartment—not just the nearby bars, but the faucets and stove, among other things. When a busy person can find time to learn more about the world (It involves the intersection of NPR and hair-straightening.) How to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office—imagine your coworkers having plastic, featureless doll crotches. It helps. The secret to finding a mechanic you love—or, more realistically, one that will not rob you blind.
Get a Financial Life
352 pages
This book is a must-read for anyone in their 20s and 30s, offering essential personal finance advice that could be beneficial even earlier in life. It's perfect for young adults starting their careers and would be a great gift for recent college graduates.
The Millionaire Next Door
311 pages
This book teaches you how to achieve complete financial independence, making it a must-read for anyone looking to improve their financial situation.
Joy of Cooking
896 pages
This cookbook is fantastic because it offers easy-to-follow recipes and a comprehensive index on food preparation, substitutes, and various techniques!
The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook Guide to Getting Published
386 pages
This book is a fantastic resource for anyone looking to enhance their understanding of sex and relationships, packed with practical tips that make it a must-read.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miraculous Messages from Heaven
400 pages
A heartfelt collection of real stories that showcase the resilience and experiences of people.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
522 pages
Learn how to prioritize effectively and become a successful individual.
12 Rules for Life
448 pages
This book offers practical advice on how to be the best person you can be.
Bird by Bird
192 pages
This book offers great tips on writing and life, making it a must-read for anyone looking to improve their craft and gain insight into the writing process.
Rich Dad Poor Dad
104 pages
Imagine your best friend is an Ivy League researcher explaining why the tips in The Millionaire Next Door are scientifically proven.
Designing Your Life
274 pages
This book applies design principles to help you make significant life decisions and ensure you're on the right path. It's a must-read for anyone looking to create a fulfilling life.
The Millionaire Next Door
273 pages
Imagine your best friend is a millionaire who loves sharing advice.
How To Win Friends and Influence People
322 pages
This book teaches you how to act around people you want to impress and loved ones you don’t want to lose.
Manufacturing Consent
466 pages
This book teaches you not to trust media or government, encouraging you to think for yourself.
Home Comforts
900 pages
The classic bestselling resource for every American household, Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. "Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food." —USA TODAY For the first time in nearly a century, here is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. Far from a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, a history book, or an encyclopedia compiled by a committee or an institute, Home Comforts is a readable guide for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts. Including choosing fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table, keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains—this guide covers everything that modern people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, home safety and security, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art and science of household management.
12 Rules for Life
450 pages
This book encourages you to get your shit together, otherwise all this information is useless.
The Hungry Student Cookbook
450 pages
The Hungry Student Cookbooks are fantastic for anyone looking to cook veggie and vegan meals easily.
The Total Money Makeover
289 pages
This book is essential for anyone looking to learn the basics of budgeting and meeting financial goals. It's super simple and provides crucial financial education.
Nosh for Students
224 pages
The Nosh books offer nice recipes without fancy cooking techniques, making it perfect for learning to cook easy and tasty food.
Daring Greatly
32 pages
This book encourages you to choose your friends wisely and reflect on your beliefs, making it a great read for personal growth.
The Simple Path to Wealth (Revised Edition)
This book offers a solid, conservative approach to personal finance, making it a great starting point for anyone looking to secure their financial future.
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview
178 pages
Reading everything by Vonnegut can help you understand the importance of respecting individuals, which ultimately leads to a happier life.
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
354 pages
Despite its title sounding a bit scammy, this book provides practical advice on managing finances responsibly, making it a worthwhile read.
The Defining Decade
251 pages
This book is a must-read for anyone in their twenties, offering valuable insights on making the most of this pivotal decade.
Rise of the Warrior Cop
517 pages
This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America’s earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society.
Black Skin, White Masks
228 pages
This book provides valuable context for understanding western society.
The Exile
272 pages
The "eXile" is the controversial tabloid founded by Ames and Taibbi that "Rolling Stone" has called "cruel, caustic, and funny" and "a must-read." In the tradition of gonzo journalists like Hunter S. Thompson, the authors cover everything from decadent club scenes to the nation's collapsing political and economic systems--no one is spared. Illustrations.
The Automatic Millionaire
258 pages
What’s the secret to becoming a millionaire? For years people have asked David Bach, the national bestselling author of Smart Women Finish Rich, Smart Couples Finish Rich, and The Finish Rich Workbook, what’s the real secret to getting rich? What’s the one thing I need to do? Now, in The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach is sharing that secret. The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple--he’s a low-level manager, she’s a beautician--whose joint income never exceeds $55,000 a year, yet who somehow manage to own two homes debt-free, put two kids through college, and retire at 55 with more than $1 million in savings. Through their story you’ll learn the surprising fact that you cannot get rich with a budget! You have to have a plan to pay yourself first that is totally automatic, a plan that will automatically secure your future and pay for your present. What makes The Automatic Millionaire unique: You don’t need a budget You don’t need willpower You don’t need to make a lot of money You don’t need to be that interested in money You can set up the plan in an hour David Bach gives you a totally realistic system, based on timeless principles, with everything you need to know, including phone numbers and websites, so you can put the secret to becoming an Automatic Millionaire in place from the comfort of your own home. This one little book has the power to secure your financial future. Do it once--the rest is automatic!
The Grapes of Wrath
596 pages
First published in 1939, "The Grapes of Wrath" is a landmark of American literature. This Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm homestead by the "land companies" and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. A portrait of conflict between the powerful and the powerless, the novel captures the horrors of the Depression and probes the very nature of equality in America. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
